Xconomy

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Founders of a company considering the various available fundraising options often ask the challenging question: Why take venture capital money, which may significantly dilute the founders and might result in a loss of control of the company?

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Xconomy

MARCH 20, 2017

Japan’s Murata Manufacturing has acquired Arctic Sand Technologies of Burlington, MA, and plans to combine Arctic Sand’s low-power semiconductor technology with its San Diego-based subsidiary, Peregrine Semiconductor. The purchase price was $68 million, according to a Peregrine spokeswoman.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

In some ways, the biggest software acquisition of all time could be a yawner. IBM’s planned $34 billion deal to acquire open-source software maker Red Hat is a hefty price to pay to give its cloud computing business a shot in the arm.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Two, Southern California venture investors have scored an exit this morning with the IPO of Clovis Oncology. San Diego's Domain Associates and Newport Beach-based Versant Ventures are both significant investors in Clovis, which priced its IPO last night at $13.00, at the lower end of its $13.00 estimated IPO range.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2016

The industry can only go so far with growth through hyper-inflated pricing and mega-M&As. At some point pharma has to figure out how to make more drugs more efficiently, or face major dislocations like business-destroying price controls. The increasing need for new drugs is intense.

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Xconomy

MAY 24, 2019

Patients, doctors, family members, and drug-price watchdogs continued to wait for the expected approval of Zolgensma , a Novartis (NYSE: NVS ) gene therapy for the rare inherited disease spinal muscular atrophy. Originally developed at a children’s hospital in Ohio , Zolgensma will be a litmus test for the nascent field.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2017

Private equity investors have more capital at their disposal than at any time in more than a decade, which could boost prices for companies seeking acquisitions. As of Aug. 1, private equity firms in North America and Europe had secured $212.6

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Xconomy

JANUARY 4, 2019

Topics ranged from the worries over CRISPR genome editing and Wild West biohacking, to Nobel Prize-fueled drug approvals and the headaches around drug prices (even for drugs meant to cure headaches). You’ll find a few of our favorite stories in this review of some of the year’s best from across the Xconomy network.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 3, 2018

Millions of people might be on vacation as we hit the dog days, but drug makers and politicians aren’t taking a break from the gamesmanship over high drug prices. Pfizer’s chief executive, recently in Trump’s crosshairs. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

APRIL 6, 2018

There were plenty of policy and drug-price headlines, Read more » Reprints | Share: The FDA didn’t smile upon a big submission of depression studies from Alkermes, while those fighting liver disease got a mixed slate of data as a big medical conference looms.

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Xconomy

APRIL 20, 2018

The price of drugs is certainly on a lot of minds these days, including the mind of President Trump, as he reportedly will make a. While pembrolizumab notched the headline-grabbing data, others are also working to develop options for various subsets of patients. Who will be able to afford all these options?

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

billion, the price Gilead Sciences is paying for Kite Pharma and its cancer-fighting cell therapy pipeline. The far-out idea of reprogramming a patient’s immune cells to fight cancer, known as CAR-T, entered the mainstream this week, and two numbers highlight the tale. The first is $11.9

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socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2010

In California, the three major electrical utilities--PG&E, which covers all of Northern California and pretty far into Central California, Edison in Southern California, and in San Diego PG&E, are all deploying smart meters now. What's the story behind the acquisition by Maxim--how did the acquisition happen?

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Xconomy

AUGUST 11, 2017

The FDA reported that generic drug approvals are set to hit a record ; the agency under Commissioner Scott Gottlieb has moved this summer to increase generic competition and lower the nation’s high drug prices. Meanwhile, drug-price hawks can sharpen their talons on a report this week from The New York Times and ProPublica.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

We want to create the right mix of the types of activities, price points, and make sure we have high quality content and high quality activities. Was it useful to you having been in venture capital to be able to get funding quickly? Bong Koh: We're now in user acquisition and ramp up mode.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

This has been evident with recent acquisitions beyond Symantec and Blue Coat – Avast and AVG, Cisco and CloudLock , IBM and Resilient Systems , and most recently Carbon Black and Confer. Thus, in the booming cybersecurity industry, valued at over $75 billion in 2015 by Gartner , these larger companies evolve their product lines via M&A.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2019

You might be camping, barbecuing, or sleeping on Monday. It’s Labor Day, after all. But in Paris, this cardiologist will be in a conference center, walking an audience through a slide deck packed with Phase 3 data for a new cholesterol-lowering drug, inclisiran. Inclisiran’s owner, the Medicines Co.,

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

Celgene paid Acetylon $100 million in 2013 for an option to buy the company outright, but the deal recently expired without an acquisition, leaving Acetylon to chart a new course. . —Option-to-buy deals are by definition no guarantee, and an agreement between Boston-based Acetylon Pharmaceuticals and Celgene is the latest example.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

Try to imagine if you *didn’t* already know Amazon and the company walking into VC meetings telling people they were going to disrupt the selling of all goods starting with books but then extending into electronics, apparel, toys and so forth. The reason as consumers we buy repeatedly on Amazon.com is both price AND service.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these. Last summer, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss—twins best known for suing Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook, and who recently formed a venture-capital firm—bought an 8,000-square-foot bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills for $18 million.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. She just spoke at TED EX in San Diego.

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